PEACOCK RELEASES TEASER AND PREMIERE DATE FOR UPCOMING ORIGINAL SERIES

TWISTED METAL

Series Comes from Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions and Universal Television

The Live-Action Comedy Series Will Premiere Exclusively On Peacock July 27, 2023

TWISTED METAL, a half-hour live-action TV series based on the classic PlayStation game series, is a high-octane action comedy, based on an original take by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and written by Michael Jonathan Smith, about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.  

Twisted Metal | Official Teaser | Peacock Original

A little note from the showrunner/executive producer/writer Michael Jonathan Smith sheds some additional insight on a few characters that are absent from the teaser trailer above:

“Yes, TWISTED METAL has the cars, it has the weapons, and it has the battles. But what it also has are people. I know you will fall in love with these characters and what drives them, no pun intended (okay, maybe a little intended). You will cheer for our charismatic hero John Doe, played by Anthony Mackie, as he drives across the Divided States of America in search of a place to belong. You’ll laugh as an enigmatic woman named Quiet, played by Stephanie Beatriz, throws John’s world for a loop after a chance encounter, forcing the two together and changing both their lives for the better. You will root for our heroes to take down psychotic highway patrolman Agent Stone, played by Thomas Haden Church, who sees the world in black and blue. And you’ll discover a surprising soulfulness to our deranged, murderous clown Sweet Tooth, voiced by Will Arnett and performed by Joe Seanoa aka wrestler Samoa Joe.

This is a bonkers show about insiders and outsiders, and how our own special apocalypse has divided and isolated us more than ever. But there’s hope. You can find your people and your community. You may just have to get past a terrifying clown driving a well-armed ice cream truck to find them. ”

Michael Jonathan Smith

Showrunner / Executive Producer / Writer: Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai) 
Executive Producers: Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland), Will Arnett and Marc Forman (Electric Avenue), Jason Spire (Inspire Entertainment), Peter Principato (Artists First), Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan from PlayStation Productions and Hermen Hulst, Head of PlayStation Studios 
Executive Producer / Star: Anthony Mackie (Make It With Gravy Productions) 
Director: Kitao Sakurai (multiple episodes) 
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group 
Series Leads: Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, with Will Arnett and Joe Seanoa
Series Guest Stars: Neve Campbell, Richard Cabral, Mike Mitchell, Tahj Vaughans, Lou Beatty Jr. 
Format: 10 x 30 min episodes; live-action comedy 

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